Holzpalatz, Housing competition, Freihampton, Germany, 2019
With David Leech Architects
Like Palladio in his Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare in Vicenta, the wall is conceived both as a surface and as a lattice of supports and beams, as flat and deep deep, as structure and façade. A porous filter, which offers protection from sunlight and gazes, which frames vistas and spaces, or the wall as a spatial enclosure that defines edges, privacy and spaces.
The community housing project is divided into three structures grouped around a garden courtyard: a three-storey structure in the southwest of the site, a six-storey structure marking the corner and a five-storey structure in the north.
They enclose a vertically and horizontally porous spatial structure with flexible flats, within a complex, three-dimensional fabric of different communal spaces, interconnected by staircases and bridges. The buildings are almost entirely planned as timber structures, a beautiful and sustainable material and an efficient construction method. and efficient construction method.